Isaiah
The verses in Isaiah that became songs, with the songs they became.
Isaiah is quoted more than any other prophet in the Book of Mormon, and the Savior commanded us to search his words (3 Nephi 23:1). Two of its most tender promises became songs here. Isaiah 49:16 — “I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands” — sits under “His Hands Before My Plans” and “Why Do I Wander.” Isaiah 53:3–4, the Savior who “hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,” became “I Give My Thanks,” written after teaching it in early-morning seminary.
Isaiah 49:16
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Why Do I Wander
His Hands Before My PlansIsaiah 53:3–4
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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I Give My Thanks
